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I was editing a poster and didn’t know whether or not to include a bibliography. I had already added \cite commands and wanted to get an idea of what it looks like without bibliography. So I commented out \printbiliography to get rid of the bibliography, but the numbers were still in the text. Removing all … [Read more…]

Google indexes most things on the web. “Most things” includes publications which are searchable through Google Scholar. Google Scholar generates BibTeX citations which can be imported into a .bib file or citation database. To download BibTeX citation go to Google Scholar and search for a publication. Through the cite button below a search result Google … [Read more…]

Sometimes it is hard to keep track of labels, particularly in large documents with many figures, tables or equations. Unless you remember all label names by heart, you will likely scroll up and down till you find the particular position in the text where the label is defined. The showlabels package provides a convenient way … [Read more…]

…sections, chapters, pages, theorems, equations, references, etc. There are numerous potential commands in LaTeX one may consider counting in order to automatically output their total number of appearances in a document. The totcount package provides a simple way to do that. We will to consider two different cases, single commands (cite, section, chapter, etc.) and … [Read more…]

Natbib is a reimplementation of the \cite command, providing both, author-year and numerical citations.You can get the distribution as well as the documentation from CTAN.Apparently, my previous post on this topic was not providing sufficient information in order to automatically create lists for multiple citations, e.g. [1,2,3, 5] -> [1-3, 5].Here is how it definitely … [Read more…]